Martin Mommy: Week 2 of Homeschool & Potty Training

I am happy to say that we have completed week 2 of homeschooling. Everything is continuing to go along very well. Cooper had his first Phonics test today. He scored a 100. Woo Hoo! He was very proud!

He is very good at school. Last year, he typically scored 100 or only missed one or two questions on all of his tests. It is very important to him that he does his best on all of his tests. He is still mostly reviewing things he learned last year and practicing his writing. We are also working on getting faster with his addition facts (2+2=4, 3+3=6, etc). He is memorizing a poem and started his new spelling word list today.

Kindle continues to work on her phonics. We are currently talking about all of the vowels and trying to figure out which vowel is in single vowel words (example: dig, dug, met, mitt, mutt). She is doing very good and recognizing the sounds even better than I expected. On the paper below, she had to circle the vowel that was in each word. She got all of them correct!

She is also doing more cursive writing. She can now write the letters "i, u and e". She is very proud of herself! She also is doing great at Arithmetic. She already recognized all of the numbers 1-10 from Pre-K, so a lot of her Arithmetic has been review so far. We found her Tinkerbell watch that she bought with her money last week, so that has also been great review of her numbers.

In other news, Celeste has decided that she is going to potty train herself. She has been taking her diaper off daily and going to the potty on her own. She is actually going both number one and two all on her own. She is so proud! The main thing I am having trouble with is convincing her that she doesn't have to go potty every 2 minutes. Because it is such a fun adventure to her, she wants to go "try" whether she really needs to go or not. She typically manages to go a couple of drops so that she can use the toilet paper (ooo), flush the potty (ahhh) and wash her hands (wahoo). These activities are super fun to her! Today, she only wore a diaper for naptime (which she ended up taking off). I told her that she could wear her big girl panties that I got her for her birthday. They are Minnie Mouse (her favorite). She has been asking to wear them since June when she got them. I have told her no in the past and that she had to wait till she could go potty. I guess that was all the motivation she needed.

I definitely would not go as far as to call her officially "potty trained". She didn't have any accidents today so she is doing really well. I think that she should be totally trained very soon.

And lastly, I wanted to give you the conclusion to Grant's stitches. It has been 10 days since the "incident" so Nathan took him today to have his stitches removed. Everything has healed up nicely. Grant, of course, thought it was a fun adventure going to the doctor today and did really great. He is super happy because he can go swimming at Nana and Grandpa's pool this weekend. I tried to get a photo of him when he got home from getting his stitches removed, but he was not interested at all. Ha ha! So here is a bonus picture of him from soccer yesterday. I love the mini goal that had. Just the right size for 3 year olds!

And since I am just throwing in a random photo of Grant, why not throw in a random picture of Gunnar (just to complete the set). He is really into sucking on his bottom lip right now. That is what he is doing in this photo.